Curveship

MIT Professor Nick Montfort has announced the launch of his new digital narrative authoring system, Curveship. The system models not only the fictional world and its characters, but the narrative discourse as well; it can rearrange the story events or structure responses from a specific character's viewpoint.

Montfort explains,

I hope the system will be useful for teaching about narrative theory and for research in AI, computational creativity, and related areas. But its primary purpose has always been the creation of new types of electronic literature.

by Mark Wernham. Machine #69 recalls Ryman’s 253, and especially Bob Arellano’s Sunshine ’69 both in its embrace of arbitrary connection and its fond nostalgia for the era when cheap booze, good drugs, fast cars and hot guns seemed to offer everything worth wanting and when nothing was worth wanting very much.

A new hyperromance for the Web. Sparsely linked, La Farge’s new hypertext nods at Stephanie Strickland’s design and to Michael Joyce’s direct address to the reader. but brings a new voice and sensibility to Web fiction.

Multimedia notes from underground, where a traumatized girl furnishes a cozy space in an underground tunnel. Script by Lynda Williams, music and code by Andy Campbell and Matthew Wright. A web work that’s especially nice on the iPad. (The floor lamp is a nice allusion. Get it?)